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Yesterday the Cleveland Cavs played the Los Angeles Lakers. If you're not a basketball fan, you probably don't care. But it was an...

At the beginning of 2020 (which feels like a decade ago) we joined the #OneWord365 challenge. The idea was this word would set your tone...

2020 was the first year I joined #oneword365. It was easy—I simply chose a word to inform the focus of my year. I chose #enjoy. The title...

The Great War, volunteers, and socks combined to create a leadership opportunity for Lady Annette Liverpool in New Zealand in 1914. One...

I used to work with an asshole. You might be imagining something like this photo: a person loudly shouting, aggressively swearing, and...

A friend asked me this morning how New Zealanders celebrate Thanksgiving. I paused before reminding her it's an American holiday and...

Joe Biden's first speech as President-elect was a key milestone in the transition of power. Was it great? Possibly not. Was it coherent...

Growing up, there a quote my dad was quite fond of: When you ASSUME you can make an ASS of U and ME.

We need to understand the neuroscience of how and why people vote. We've got plenty of evidence that emotion wins over rational argument.

Politicians are caught in a huge cauldron of steaming ambiguity. 

Yesterday I put myself through a lot of pain. Three separate painful sessions to be exact. One was necessary (a dentist appointment), one...

Diversity and inclusion are on the agenda for organisations worldwide. The driver is for more fair and equitable outcomes. Or is it? The...

Last night two women went head to head in the Leader's Debate, one of many set pieces of a modern election campaign. Political analysis...

Is this possible? The question came up during our August 2020 presentation about our brains and bias. The answer: possibly not, but the...

Who knows? I certainly don't claim to. Phrases like the fiction of prediction; predicting the future is like pouring coffee into a cup...